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United States Presidential Election, 1960
The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th presidential election. The Republican Party nominated Vice President Richard Nixon, while the Democratic Party nominated John F. Kennedy. The President, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, was not eligible for re-election after being elected the maximum two times. This was the first presidential election in which voters in Alaska and Hawaii were able to participate. -
Inauguration of John F. Kennedy
The inauguration of John F. Kennedy as the 35th President of the United States was held on Friday, January 20, 1961 at the eastern portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.. The inauguration marked the commencement of John F. Kennedy's only term as President and of Lyndon B. Johnson's only term as Vice President. Kennedy died 2 years, 306 days into this term, and Johnson succeeded to the presidency. -
Peace Corps is Created
The program was established by Executive Order 10924, issued by President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961, announced by televised broadcast March 2, 1961, and authorized by Congress on September 21, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military, trained and funded by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency, Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front and intended to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro. Launched from Guatemala and Nicaragua, the invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. -
New View of the Disabled
In 1961 Kennedy convened "the President's Panel on Mental Retardation." The panel's first report called for funding of research into developmental disabilities and educational and vocational programs for people with developmental disabilities. -
Building of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and was completed in 1992. -
Expanding of Women's Rights
In 1961 the Kennedy administration created "the Presidential Commission on the Statue of Women." The commission called for federal action against discrimination and affirmed the right of women to equally paid employment. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas while riding in a motorcade in Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald while he was riding with his wife, Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. -
Lyndon B. Johnson Takes Office
After president Kennedy was assassinated vice president Johnson took the oath of office, becoming the 36th president of the united states. -
Nelson Mandela Gets Imprisoned
On 5 August 1962, police captured Mandela along with fellow activist Cecil Williams near Howick. Many MK members suspected that the authorities had been tipped off with regard to Mandela's whereabouts, although Mandela himself gave these ideas little credence. -
Indira Gandhi Becomes Prime Minister
Indira formed her government with Morarji Desai as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister.At the beginning of her first term as prime minister, Indira was widely criticized by the media and the opposition as a "Goongi goodiya" of the Congress party bosses who had got her elected and tried to constrain her. -
Child Nutrition Act
The Child Nutrition Act is a United States federal law signed on October 11, 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The Act was created as a result of the "years of cumulative successful experience under the National School Lunch Program to help meet the nutritional needs of children." The National School Lunch Program feeds 30.5 million children per day. NSLP was operated in over 101,000 public and nonprofit private schools in 2007. -
Johnson Doesn't Run Again
Johnson realized that because of his conduct of the War in Vietnam he could not win the Democratic Nomination. After the Tet offensive the American voters became disillusioned with the conduct of war in Vietnam and how it could be ended. -
Medicare and Medicare is Created
Medicaid in the United States is a social health care program for families and individuals with limited resources. The Health Insurance Association of America describes Medicaid as a "government insurance program for persons of all ages whose income and resources are insufficient to pay for health care."
